Ooluntha Vadai

Ingredients
Items	Qnty	Comments
Urad dhal	1 cup	(tamil:Ooluntham paruppu)
Onion	1 small onion	(tamil:vengayam)
Green Chillies	5	(tamil:pachamilagai)
Green Curry Leaves	10 leaves	(tamil:karuvepilai)
Salt	¾ teaspoon	Or as required
Oil	3 cups	For frying

Method

1. Wash and soak the urad dhal in water for half an hour.

2. Drain the water from the urad dhal and keep it aside.

3. You can either use a blender,grinder or food processor for grinding.

4. First of all add the green chillies in the food processor and grind for a minute.

5. Then add the urad dhal and grind well.1/4 cup of water can be added while grinding.

6. After 10 minutes it will be grinded well.It should be a little coarse.

7. Transfer the batter to a vessel.

8. Finely cut the onions.

9. Add salt,onions and curry leaves to the batter and mix well.

10. Heat the oil in a tawa(wok).

11. Take a small vessel that has a flat surface and turn it upside down.Wet the surface with water and keep a Ziploc bag or plastic sheet on top of it.

12. Take a small ball of batter and keep it on the plastic sheet and flatten it.Make a hole in the center and carefully remove from the plastic sheet and put it in oil.(You can touch water in between to flatten the batter as it is sticky)

13. When both sides turn golden brown drain the oil and keep it on a plate that is lined with a paper towel.

14. Transfer to a serving plate.

Tips

· 1 cup of dhal would give about 12 medium size vadas.

· This is an excellent snack during evenings and can be served as a starter too.

· Food processor is the best to grind since you can use very less water for grinding.

· In case you grind the batter very finely then the vadas will start absorbing oil while frying.The same applies when you use a lot of water for grinding too.

· If you add 1 tablespoon of rice flour to the batter it will make the vadas more crispier.

· Crushed pepper and salt can be used instead of chillies and onions.It is called milagu vadai.

· Serve hot with coconut chutney or sambhar.